Improving Quality of Health Care Services and Efficiency in Colombia

The development objective of Improving Quality of Health Care Services and Efficiency in Colombia Program project aims to support improvements in the quality of health care services and in the efficiency of the health system. The program contributes directly to the health sector goals of Colombia’s National Development Plan (PND) and to the strategic vision of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MSPS). The goals of the proposed operation of improving quality and efficiency contribute, in the longer term, to strengthening the financial sustainability of the Colombian health system and, in this sense, mirror the title of the government’s health sector program supported by this PforR: Health for all with quality and efficiency, sustainable by all. This Program for Results (PforR) is structured around two results areas: (a) Results area 1: improve the quality of health care services; and (b) Results area 2: improve efficiency in the health system (SGSSS).